PRESENTATION DES ENREGISTREMENTS

« Chers invisibles »
C’est ainsi que Walter Benjamin nommait les auditeurs. Benjamin a écrit sur la radio et pour la radio. À la fin des années 1920, il a travaillé pour la radio publique à Berlin et à Francfort. Il aimait la dimension populaire de ce nouveau média aux possibilités infinies, dont celle de mettre en scène la vie quotidienne. Il a notamment réalisé une série d'émissions "pour enfants", qui s'adressent également aux adultes. La radio était pour Benjamin le lieu par excellence d'application pratique de ses réflexions sur les moyens de reproductibilité technique. Il a même esquissé une théorie de la radio. Dans le cadre de notre recherche B_AIR, nous proposons de revisiter les écrits et les pièces radiophoniques de Benjamin pour interroger les usages et les potentiels de la radio aujourd'hui.
Par la radio, au prisme de la création sonore et de la philosophie, nous continuerons à questionner comment le monde sonne et comment peut-on le faire sonner. Notre séminaire sera délocalisé pendant 2 jours à Portbou en Espagne où, tous les 2 ans, une rencontre autour des travaux de Walter Benjamin réunit chercheurs, artistes, architectes et philosophes pour débattre et expérimenter son œuvre.
Ce séminaire alterne des conférences suivies de discussions, des lectures, des créations sonores et des marches sonores.

These are the recordings of the seminar
Walter Benjamin, la radio et l’enfance
Walter Benjamin, Radio and Childhoodheld in Portbou, Spain,
September 29-30th, 2021,organized by B_AIR / AAU_CRESSON / ENSAG

Ces enregistrements sonores accompagnent la recherche
B-AIR – Art Infinity Radio – How does the world sound?

Équipe :
Nicolas Tixier, juL McOisans, Cédric Pichat, Sébastien De Pertat

INDEX

Mardi 28 septembre 2021

01 - Radio Wega - Sound installation
(Giuseppe Gavazza)

an introduction walk through the installation on the seashore, while the participants to seminar meet up & have a drink at « Antonio’s »

Mercredi 29 septembre 2021  

02 - « A l’écoute » de Walter Benjamin
(lecture par Didier Tallagrand)

03 - « Chers invisibles » / “Dear invisibles” #1
(Nicolas Tixier)

04 - Walter Benjamin et la radio (diffusion)
(Philippe Baudouin)

Excerpt from « Walter Benjamin, the collector of sparks », radio documentary by Philippe Baudouin broadcast on December 17, 2011 on France Culture, as part of the program « Une vie, une oeuvre ».

05 - « Dressez l’oreille, vous risquez d’en avoir besoin »
Apprentissage de l’insatisfaction
(Anne Roche)

Between 1929 and 1933, Walter Benjamin produced about ninety broadcasts, talks for children, Hörspiele, Hörmodelle, radio games, literary conferences. On a selection taken from Lumières pour enfants and three radio plays, I propose to examine the interest he takes in this new medium of radio, some of the subjects he deals with, and the main modalities consideration of the medium – as opposed to the classic lecture: questioning the audience, by appealing to common experiences, periodic reminder of the distance between the listener’s reality and the fiction offered to him, exploration of « the various ways in which the fictional narrative can step over its own thresholds” (Gérard Genette), research on sounds drawn from everyday life, and on the expressiveness of voices. The purpose is to awaken the critical conscience of the listener, and to question the traditional separation between producer and consumer of cultural goods.

06 - Walter Benjamin et Portbou
(Bruno Queysanne)

07 - Marche vers le mémorial W. Benjamin

08 - Archéologie des « Hörspiele » en contexte allemand
(Hans Hartje)

In my communication I propose a panorama of the technological, political, societal, ideological and aesthetic conditions of the emergence of a radiophonic art in the 1920s in Germany. Keywords: radio, Hörspiel, acoustic art, 1920s, Germany

Mots clés: radio, Hörspiel, art acoustique, années 1920, Allemagne

09 - En partant du narrateur : devenir des récits terrestres
(Jean-Paul Thibaud)

Attempt at a short tale based on Walter Benjamin and his reflections on the story. What if we now had the task of learning to speak the language of the Earth? Keywords: storyteller, sensitivity, ecology, life, Earth

10 - Electronic media and listening commons in the early years of Radio Ljubljana
(Rajko Muršič)

11 - RadioWalk for Benjamin
(Pavlica Bajsic Brazzoduro)

A treasure-hunt based format in a production inspired by Walter Benjamins writings. The collaboration of our team member and artistic director Pavlica Bajsic Brazzoduro and AAU_CRESSON / ENSAG project partner started at the winter school in Grenobleu where she presented her research and the Radiowalk, a new format created by merging of a soundwalk and a theatre performance. Due to COVID restrictions this participation and presentation were only possible because they took place online. But it also intensified the communication and collaboration between the project partners RadioTeatra and AAU_CRESSON / ENSAG. It resulted in September 2021 in Portbou, a small port on the border of France and Spain, where Pavlica Bajsic Brazzoduro presented an artistic production in memory of Walter Benjamin who died there running away from the Nazis. It is a radiowalk format dedicated to him and his writings for radio and for children. In its form, a radiowalk is based on the children’s treasure hunt and is therefore inspired by children and their responses and Benjamin´s writings for children are thematically very intriguing for this format.
(34min 01)

Jeudi 30 septembre 2021

12 - « Le Mississippi et l’inondation de 1927 » de Walter Benjamin
(lecture par Sonia Pérez)

13 - « Chers invisibles » / “Dear invisibles” #2
(Nicolas Tixier)

14 - Navigating Borderscapes and Belonging.
Memories of Children’s Radio Listening in Finland
(Helmi Järviluoma- Mäkelä)

15 - Enfance et réalité à venir
(Alexandre Costanzo)

It is first a question of exposing several figures of childhood which coexist in the work of Walter Benjamin, by privileging some which are sometimes left aside, to consider an overall situation from which it becomes allowable to put in tension thought of the history, reality, policy of emancipation.

16 - The end of an era - Presentation

(correspondence of Benjamin and Adorno) / Sound Walk
(Dana Papachristou and Georges Samantas)

“The end of an era” is an audio-walk composition based on the correspondence of Walter Benjamin with Gretel Karplus (later, Gretel Adorno) and Theodor Adorno, 1933-1940. The audio-walk is a geo-located composition based on the locative media platform Echoes.xyz. Excerpts from the extensive mail correspondence, together with fragments of their literary influences in spoken word, are composed in an itinerary that links together various milestones in Portbou, where Walter Benjamin’s legacy dwells vividly, as his last place of residence.

17 - The end of an era - SoundWalk in & Out

Recorded through the ears of Cédric Pichat & mixed with a parallel recording of the surrounding city life.

18 - Experimental Broadcasting and Transnational Evening of Sounds
(Heikki Uimonen)

Finnish Broadcasting Company’s live programme called Äänien ilta (Evening of Sounds) with approximately 200 000 listeners consists of callers’ narratives on their personal experiences and memories on contemporary and historical sonic phenomena from urban, agricultural and natural settings. Sound requests are fulfilled with the help of public service radio sound archives and present-day soundscape recordings. The show is broadcast with the help of a show host and visiting scholars representing research of environmental sounds, sound art and/or sound design.

This paper studies the cultural, social and aesthetic nature of the sound requests hypothesising them being parallel to those of music call-ins in sharing music and experiences related to them. This is enabled by the radio listeners’ soundscape competence, referring to the ability to interpret sounds of a given cultural background. Theoretically, the programme and the electro-acoustic community it is constructing, will be approached with the help of the concept of radiogenic content. The term is used to describe texts ideally suited to radio or the ones that utilize the distinctive qualities of radio and aesthetic use of sound. The paper is historically contextualised to Dziga Vertov’s and Paul Hindemith’s radiogenic experiments and reportages in the 1920s and further elaborated to construct B-Air-inspired programme European Evening of Sounds.

Keywords: soundscape, radiogenic, media culture, public radio, call-in programmes, listening, memory, archives

19 - – Radio Wega - Sound performance
(Giuseppe Gavazza)

20 - Contes radiophoniques
Five tales read by children of Portbou school in a radiophonic situation.
(in spanish & catalan)

21 - Round table / Table ronde

22 - Lecture transversale et échanges finaux
(Pascal Amphoux)

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